Questioningly: A New Holiday

Last week, we asked for literary merchandise, and you, collectively, coughed up a store’s worth of comically ill-conceived products. We’re still reeling from the genius of your bad ideas.

This week, though, has been dominated by holidays: first Independence Day, then the Fourth of July. Wait: we’re getting word that those may be the same holiday. Never mind. At any rate, this week’s Questioningly is also a kind of busman’s holiday from the intellectual rigor of last week’s contest. This week’s is simple: we want you to invent a new national holiday. It can occur at any time of the year, commemorate anything, and have any associated rituals or customs. Let your hotdog-and-pie-besotted brains run wild.

So that’s the contest. Invent a holiday. Tweet it to us. Don’t forget to include the hashtag #tnyquestion. Questioningly runs Friday until Monday morning, when we’ll retweet the winning entry, along with some runners-up. The winner this week can pretend that his or her holiday exists, and celebrate accordingly.

Illustration by Saul Steinberg.

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